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Samsung has launched three new "Duos"-branded smartphones in India, offering dual connectivity to Indian consumers. The Galaxy Y Duos and Galaxy Y Pro Duos will look familiar to anyone who's glanced across Samsung's European line-up, but the Duos variants come with dual-SIM support. Similarly, the Galaxy Ace has been available for around a year, but the Ace Duos includes both GSM and CDMA...

HTC smartphones will become the first non-Sony devices to receive PlayStation certification, according to reports from British tech site Pocket-Lint. Citing its own insider sources, the site claims that an announcement will be made later this year.
So far PlayStation certification, which allows PlayStation titles to be played through an Android-based compatibility layer, has only been available...

Right on cue, today sees the Canadian launch of the Galaxy Note, Samsung's super-sized phone/tablet hybrid. The Canadian version, which unlike its international counterpart ships with 4G LTE support, is available now Bell Canada and TELUS Mobility. Rogers is due to get it today too, though at the time of writing their site has not yet been updated. Prices on TELUS start at C$779.99 for the Note...

With imminent launches in the U.S. and Canada, and strong sales worldwide, there's certainly a fair bit of traction behind the Samsung Galaxy Note. Now the Note looks set to extend its reach into Australia, with today's news that Vodafone Australia will be carrying the device at some point in the future.
The Galaxy Note combines one of the largest screens ever seen on a smartphone -- a 5.3-inch...

The SIM-free price of the European (GSM) HTC EVO 3D has been reduced once again by one UK retailer. Following its initial price cut to £250 last month, ASDA Direct has now dropped the EVO's price tag to £229.00, making it considerably cheaper than just about every other high-end handset out there. When the EVO 3D launched in Europe last August, it was priced at over £500 off-contract, so this...

Gmail is one of Google's best products for many of us. Personally, if my computer or smartphone is on, Gmail is running either in a browser window or through a mail client, and while using an Android device it's the first app I set up. It's very well done on Android, and overall it's the best and most reliable way I've found to get my mail.
But not everybody is like I am. During the Mobile...

There's an OTA update slowly being pushed out for the US Wifi version Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, and no it's not Ice Cream Sandwich. It's a maintenance release of some sort we first saw back in January, and have been hearing a bit of news about it trickling out for the past week or so. It still doesn't seem to be pushing en masse, but it's picked up enough steam that we're pretty certain pushing...

So how are you guys celebrating Valentines Day? Taking that special someone out for a romantic candlelit dinner? Perhaps a bunch of roses, chocolates, Champagne? Or, will you be downloading games from the Android Market? Gameloft would like to think it would be the latter of those choices, and in celebration will be reducing the price of its Android catalogue to $0.99/£0.99.
Seriously though,...

Previously, Google was teasing some updates coming to Google TV and one of the things they happened to mention on their blog was an update to the GoogleTV YouTube app. While we're still uncertain if this was the big annuncement they had coming or if it was just one small portion of something bigger, one thing we do know for certain is the fact the YouTube app update is now rolling out to...

BB10 has shown its pretty face, and we'll be damned if there's not a lot there to love. There should be, as Research in Motion has certainly borrowed more than a bit in the UI department from Android, as well as a little from Windows Phone 7. We're not knocking them for it (OK, maybe just a little), because RIM has needed a serious refresh to their image among consumers for a while now, and...

We've known about Intel and Motorola's partnership for some time, and we've even seen the chip giant's Medfield platform powering prototype handsets. Today, a leaked render obtained by PocketNow purportedly shows the first Motorola-built, Intel-powered Android smartphone, running Ice Cream Sandwich with a new version of the Motoblur UI. And if you look closely, you'll notice what seem to be...

Hey guys! The fine folks at ngmoco have approached a slew of Android sites to participate in a Skyfall Proving Grounds challenge. The prize? Well, I don't get anything but bragging rights if I take first place, but you guys will get a chance to win one of five (5) Skyfall-branded Galaxy S IIs, which means you should root for me quietly while you sit at your desk, likely pretending to work while...

Monday again and time to get another week of Android news happening. It was a pretty relaxed weekend but if you missed out on anything from then or today thus far, make sure you get yourself caught up. If you've already done so and are looking for more Android goodness, hit up the Android Central forums:
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The U.S. Department of Justice has approved Google's $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility, just hours after the deal was approved by the European Commission.
The key phrasing from the DoJ: “The division concluded that the specific transactions at issue are not likely to significantly change existing market dynamics."
When Google first announced the deal, they stated that it was done to...

If you're a registered member here at Android Central then you know our forums always have a contest happening. And if you're not registered, well -- now is as good a time as any. This week's winners are as posted after the break, and if you were chosen watch your email as we'll be following up shortly. Stay tuned for more upcoming contests folks. Congrats to this week's winners!

We love seeing new Android tablets get announced and released, honestly we do. Especially when they are nothing like the new Chinon Swift series tablets, which pretty much set a new standard for cheap craplets running Android. The idea is solid -- an affordable option to the high-priced tablet market here in the US, but the execution is flawed. There's no one thing inherently wrong with tablets...

It's been a while since we saw any mention of Quadrant benchmark scores in phone reviews. We hoped that it was for the obvious reason, but in a world where the Galaxy Nexus is king we couldn't run a Quadrant score even if we wanted to -- it didn't work properly with Ice Cream Sandwich. Version 2.0 lands today with support for ICS and multicore CPU's. Oh, and it now supports Polish as well.
What...

If you've got an Acer Iconia A200, and have a bit of thirst for Ice Cream Sandwich, you're in luck. The latest and greatest Android OS update is rolling out now via an OTA update and it brings the device to version 4.0.3. We've seen ICS for the Iconia A200 leaked before, but this update is a bit different (version number wise) than the previous ones we have seen.
The Acer Iconia A200, (read...

It's time for another weekly photo contest, and this week the theme is animals. It's a broad category, and we can't wait to see how some of you guys and gals dazzle us with your great pictures. Whether it's a picture of your pet, something from the park or zoo, or something exotic, we wanna see those pics. This week the winner gets a headset of his or her choice from ShopAndroid.com to keep...

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